Re:One hiring filter that works
by john_horton on Friday April 06, 2012 @11:10AM
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This is interesting - do you have a good academic reference for that summarizes this literature? Maybe like a handbook chapter?
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I think the the study he is referencing is the 1998 paper by Schmidt & Hunter. We studied it in business school. I couldn't find an actual copy of the paper but these two articles have abstracts of the findings:
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1...
http://www.onetest.com.au/awms/Upload/documents/whitepapers/...
Schmidt, F.L. & Hunter, J.E. (1998) The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research findings,” Psychological Bulletin,
Re:One hiring filter that works
by tokenadult on Friday April 06, 2012 @01:56PM
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Thanks. I had read the conclusion I mentioned in monographs about psychology I was reading for other research interests, and I'm glad you cited a key review article. I found the article's full text
http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...
via Google Scholar.